Identifier: appreciationofsc00stur (find matches)
Title: Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ...
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Sturgis, Russell
Subjects: Sculpture
Publisher: The Baker
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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Plate LIII.—PORTRAIT STATUE OF HORACE GREELEY;BY J. Q. A. WARD.
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Plate LIV.—PORTRAIT IEAUX (1827-1875). OF THE PAINTER JEAN LEON GEROME, BY J. K. CAR- 1 Recent Art, Part II, Sentiment necessity of placing the statue in front ofthe Tribune office, in one of the busiestcorners of New York, and of raising itabove the crowded sidewalk, compelled theplacing of it close beneath the deep andmassive segmental arch, one of the greatopenings of the basement story. All theseinfluences acted together to produce a mostunusual and striking composition, as shownin the Plate. On the other hand, in the extraordinaryschool of portraiture developed in Francebetween 1875 and the close of the century,and embodied the most frequently in headsalone—mere heads, in each case supportedon its characteristic and individual neck—it is notable how detached, how vigorousand even violent these portrait headsbecame. The head of the painter, JeanLeon G^rome (Plate LIV) by that sameCarpeaux who modelled the Four Quartersof the Globe (Plate XLIV), is one of the mostspirited of

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